Even the Government's health spending is crazily high. (that's us spending more as % of GDP on our seniors and elderly than Canada, or Australia, or Switzerland, or Spain, or Italy, or Norway, or the UK spend on their entire populations.):

And the socialist quality-of-care outcomes at home and abroad are better or the same.

It worked (reversed the crash). This chart color codes job gain/loss by president. Obama passed the stimulus bill pretty much right away, on the heels of another stimulus passed by Bush at the very end of his term, and shortly after the economy started doing the thing where it sucked a lot less. (Obama's election here is just a convenient central data point to stimulus)